September 16, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) today praised a federal judge’s ruling that will allow Pelican Bay prisoners to receive mail containing material printed from the Internet. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Sept. 11 that prisoners have
Sept. 26, 2002 WASHINGTON D.C. – House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) today endorsed the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002, legislation he called “a truly compassionate initiative that will make real progress in changing the realities of incarceration.” Hastert’s endorsement came in a letter to Charles Colson, the chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries. The group
October 30, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The FBI’s practice of including only female rape victims in its annual Uniform Crime Report on violent crime is outdated and ignores the vast numbers of men who are raped and sexually brutalized in prison, the director of the nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape said today. Lara
December 16, 2002 LOS ANGELES – Prisoners who want to send material to be published on the website of Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) or other organizations may not be stopped by the Arizona Department of Corrections, a federal judge ruled today. A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction halting the enforcement of a law
March 5, 2003 LOS ANGELES – A $13 million funding package has been approved for the study of prisoner rape, the first-ever federal appropriation for research on the issue. The package is part of the $397 billion federal spending bill signed by President Bush on February 20, 2003. The language of the funding package states